Letters to the Editor
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No, could you please, in your own words, paraphrase the argument Kamiya is making?
A concise paragraph or two should do the trick.
What you've done there was to equivocate, because you present passages and your responses to them but you fail to offer some sort of coherence.
I'm asking you to demonstrate that you understand Kamiya's argument before offering your own counter-argument.
For instance, "Gary's central argument is that patriotism, or the illusion of patriotism, hampers our ability to make wise policy decisions, and in fact is a contributing factor to our making government making rather poor ones and our ratification therof...To illustrate his point, Gary points to A, B and C as evidence.
I disagree with Gary's conclusion because his evidence fails to address D, E, and F, or because his evidence is faulty, and here's how..."
Something like that, you know?